All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 17 2017 // A Southern California couple that had filed an official complaint accusing police officers of racism, has been arrested for insurance fraud and filing a false police report.Lamont Goodwin, 33, and Sylvia Camarillo, 31,...
Apr 17 2017 // Bethesda, MD, April 17, 2017— United Educators Insurance (UE), a Reciprocal Risk Retention Group (RRG) celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, is expanding its seamless coverage endorsement to outline protection for...
Apr 13 2017 // A 20-year-old man whose pickup collided with a church minibus last month in rural Texas, killing 13 people, told state troopers he had taken prescription medication before driving and had marijuana in his truck, according...
Apr 5 2017 // Civil rights groups, media advocates and some lawmakers are opposing an Iowa bill that would end public access to many 911 calls, a broadly-worded measure that also could shield some police videos.The bill declares that...
Mar 30 2017 // A recent crash involving an Uber Technologies Inc. driverless car suggests autonomous software sometimes takes the same risks as the humans it may one day replace.The accident on Friday in Tempe, Arizona, caused no major...
Mar 28 2017 // Police in Alabama’s two largest beach towns say they’re arrested more than 450 spring breakers so far this year, and that’s a big improvement from last year.Police in both Orange Beach and Gulf Shores are...
Mar 27 2017 // A woman who was hurt in a car crash that ended a police chase more than three years ago can’t sue the officers or the suburban Birmingham city where it occurred, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday.The justices...
Mar 21 2017 // Authorities are trying to determine whether a series of break-ins at mosques in Alabama might be linked to a similar case in Virginia based partly on similarities shown in surveillance photos, officials said Friday.Images...
Mar 15 2017 // The nation’s most generous grow-your-own marijuana laws came closer this week to being curbed in Colorado, where the state House advanced a pair of bills aimed at cracking down on people who grow weed outside the...
Mar 10 2017 // A Texas woman is asking for $350 million in damages after alleging in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday that her civil rights were violated when she was wrongfully arrested in the wake of a deadly 2015 gun battle involving...
Mar 9 2017 // Carolina Giselle Berrio, a/k/a “Carolina Slocum Berrio,” “Karrie,” 37, of Lafayette, Louisiana is the latest defendant to plead guilty to being involved in a large opioid “pill mill”...
Mar 3 2017 // XL Catlin’s insurance companies and Professional Governmental Underwriters Inc. (PGU) have entered into an underwriting agreement to offer public entity management and employment practices liability insurance (EPLI)...
Feb 27 2017 // Police say a man working on a house under construction in Duxbury, Mass., has died in a fall from the roof.The Patriot Ledger reports that police and firefighters were called to the construction site at around 7:45 a.m....
Feb 14 2017 // Police across Wisconsin have ramped up efforts to stop aggressive driving by writing more speeding tickets.The strategy is appearing to work, as citations increased nearly 7 percent in 2015, to more than 172,000, the...
Feb 10 2017 // The driver of a speeding Tesla electric car that crashed and burned in Indianapolis, killing her and a passenger, was too drunk to drive, according to a police report released Wednesday.The report, which includes...
Feb 10 2017 // Police officers responded to complaints of a raucous “rave” at a California warehouse illegally used as an entertainment venue and residence two years before a late-night fire at the venue killed 36 partygoers,...
Feb 9 2017 // Facebook and Manhattan prosecutors went to New York state’s highest court Tuesday to settle a legal dispute over search warrants for users’ accounts, a closely watched case with big implications for online...
Feb 9 2017 // Law enforcement officers in Tennessee plan to follow and ride Hamilton County school buses at random after a bus crash killed six students in November.The Times Free Press says the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Hamilton County...
Feb 6 2017 // An Oregon jury has ruled against a man who sued the city of Salem after he was bitten by a police dog.The Statesman Journal reported John Hillebrand sought $1 million for physical pain, emotional harm and legal fees....
Feb 2 2017 // Police in Greensboro, N.C., say more than 50 guns were stolen from a gun show over the weekend.Police said in a release Monday security guards reported the theft Sunday before the Greensboro Gun and Knife Show opened....